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| author | Panariello, Michele Todisco, Massimiliano Evans, Nicholas |
| author_facet | Panariello, Michele Todisco, Massimiliano Evans, Nicholas |
| contents | Voice anonymisation can be used to help protect speaker privacy when speech data is shared with untrusted others. In most practical applications, while the voice identity should be sanitised, other attributes such as the spoken content should be preserved. There is always a trade-off; all approaches reported thus far sacrifice spoken content for anonymisation performance. We report what is, to the best of our knowledge, the first attempt to actively preserve spoken content in voice anonymisation. We show how the output of an auxiliary automatic speech recognition model can be used to condition the vocoder module of an anonymisation system using a set of learnable embedding dictionaries in order to preserve spoken content. Relative to a baseline approach, and for only a modest cost in anonymisation performance, the technique is successful in decreasing the word error rate computed from anonymised utterances by almost 60%. |
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| spellingShingle | Preserving spoken content in voice anonymisation with character-level vocoder conditioning Panariello, Michele Todisco, Massimiliano Evans, Nicholas Audio and Speech Processing Voice anonymisation can be used to help protect speaker privacy when speech data is shared with untrusted others. In most practical applications, while the voice identity should be sanitised, other attributes such as the spoken content should be preserved. There is always a trade-off; all approaches reported thus far sacrifice spoken content for anonymisation performance. We report what is, to the best of our knowledge, the first attempt to actively preserve spoken content in voice anonymisation. We show how the output of an auxiliary automatic speech recognition model can be used to condition the vocoder module of an anonymisation system using a set of learnable embedding dictionaries in order to preserve spoken content. Relative to a baseline approach, and for only a modest cost in anonymisation performance, the technique is successful in decreasing the word error rate computed from anonymised utterances by almost 60%. |
| title | Preserving spoken content in voice anonymisation with character-level vocoder conditioning |
| topic | Audio and Speech Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04306 |